An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone,: Made During the Year 1819 |
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Page 29 - Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
Page 80 - The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus. She open'd, but to shut Excell'd her power ; the gates wide open stood, That with extended wings a banner'd host, Under spread ensigns marching, might pass through With horse and chariots rank'd in loose array ; So wide they stood, and like a furnace mouth Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame.
Page 181 - ... sub oculis meis redit, ut cogitem nihil esse debere quod amplius mihi placeat in hac vita, et effracto majori laqueo, tempus esse de Babylone fugiendi crebra horum inspectione, ac fugacissimce fftatis cestimatione commonear: quod, prcevia Dei gratia, facile erit prceteriti temporis curas supervacuas, spes inanes, et inexpectatus exitus acriter ac viriliter cogitanti.
Page 148 - The compassion of the spectator must arise altogether from the consideration of what he himself would feel if he was reduced to the same unhappy situation, and, what perhaps is impossible, was at the same time able to regard it with his present reason and judgment.
Page 148 - Of all the calamities to which the condition of mortality exposes mankind, the loss of reason appears, to those who have the least spark of humanity, by far the most dreadful, and they behold that last stage of human wretchedness, with deeper commiseration than any other.
Page 181 - And in the same city, in the same month of April, on the same sixth day, at the same first hour in the year 1348...
Page 193 - And the bee banquets on through a whole year of flowers ; Where the sun loves to pause With so fond a delay, That the night only draws A thin veil o'er the day; Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we live, Is worth the best joy that life elsewhere can give.
Page 14 - They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided.
Page 64 - And when at last, by the unremitted effect of all this seduction, considerable portions of the multitude had been deeply tainted, their minds prepared for acts of desperation, and familiarized with the thought of crimes, at the bare mention of which they would before have revolted, then it was that they were encouraged to...
Page 180 - Avinioni hora matutina: et in eadem civitate eodem mense Aprilis eodem die 6. eadem hora prima, anno autem Domini 1348 ad hac luce lux illa subtracta est, cum ego forte Veronae essem, heu fati mei nescius!